The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-28

A. j. Kimberly was yesterday appointed
freight and ticket agent of the Indianapolis &
Vincernes road at Friendswood, Ind.
A. j. Harshman. B. U. Hays, B. A. Dunn,
brakemen, and 5 D. Prouty, engineer. on the
Vandaa. have been promoted to conductors.
A station has been established at Florida. Ind.
on the third division of e 9 c., St L. g. P, and
j. s. Guisinge was yester ~ appointed agent.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road
earned, in the third week of April, $50 ,346 and
the Louisville, New Albany e. Chicago $37. 1927.
The c., L, St L. & c. engineering depart
ment is preparing plans and specifications for
considerably increasing the company's terminal
facilities at North Vernon.
Through business is so light that the Bee-line,
the G., St. l.. 81 P. and the c., l., St L. & C.
have dropped some of their train crews from the
pay-rolls, awaiting an improvement in business
With the removal of the general offices Of the
Lake Erie q Western road to this city will come
eleven general officers and some eighty clerks
This change makes the l.. E. g. W. one of Indi-
anapoliss best local roads.
The Western lines have made special rate on
steel rails to encourage the Indianapolis steel
rail mill company in their enterprise The rate
for 200 miles will be but 20 per ton, and less
and greater distances are named on a proportion
ate basis.
The man agement of the Midland railway an
nounce that through trains will be put on next
Monday between Lebanon and Anderson, con-
nection being made at Westfed for Indianapo-
lis. In the m eantime the work of construction
west continues.
Regardless of the rumors that the Peoria,
Decatur 81 Evansville people are to gather in the
Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield road there
is excellent authority for saying that the first
mortgage bondholders will buy it in at the fore
closure sale, and extend it to Quincy, Ill
AS vice president of the Union Pacific Mr..
Potter is to receive a salary of $40. 1000 per an
mum, $4,000 moro than the c.. B. & @ paid
y, I'D q ~
fered him if he would take ths presidency of the
Bee-ine just after the death of J. a. Devereux.
Among other improvements to be made on
the Louisville. Evansville & st. Louis is the
putting into track of seventy miles of steel
rail and the filling in of several of the long
trestles, the building of new stations and con-
structing two short but highly necessary extern
tensions.
Under the present rulings of the trunk lines
and the Central Traffic Association the Lake
Erie & Western cannot do any east-bound bust
ness out of Indianapolis via Detroit or Toledo.
The matter is to be taken ND at an early day
and some satisfactory arrangement will doubt
less be made.
OF the cas- t-bound tonnage forwarded from In
dianapolis the first three weeks of April. the
Lake Erie & Western carried per cent; the
Decline. "a per cent; the c., St L. & P, %. 8
per cent; the c.. l., St L. & c., 10 per cent;
the c., Fl. & D., T3 per cent: the L.. n. A. &
C., Z per cent; the l., B. & W.. 11.3 per cent
. Despite all the care and time which has been
given to revision of the rates and the classified
ton by the roads. which subject to the inter
state-commerce law, numerous errors are daily
manifesting themselves much to the annoyance
of the general freight agents, who have have
given two months hard work to the undertak-
ing.
The paymaster of the Wabash road yesterday
paid the employees for the first half of March,
the portion of the month the road was operated
by them prior to the Indianapolis, Peru & Chi
cago taking hold. The Lake Erie & Western
paymaster several days ago paid the employees
for the last half of the month. Hereafter the
boys will have their pay in good time and with
more regularity
One Sullivan has brought suit for So, 600
damages against the Indianapolis & Vincennes
Railroad Company for the cutting off. by one of
their trains, of the limb of his son. This is the
third suit brought in this State within the last
few days were damages were claimed for the in
| Jurlng of person who was attempting to board
train when IN motion, thing strictly for
hidden under penalty by the statutes of Indiana.
The Evansville Journal announces that the
Paducah 81 Mt Vernon and Mt Vernon &
Wabash roads have been consolidated under the
title OF the former corporation, and will at once
issue So. 600, 900 of per cent. mortgage bonds.
| The Journal says the road is backed by wealthy
New York parties, and, as we'll. has number
of stockholders In Indiana and Illinois. II
built it would make the short line between
Evansville and Paducah.
| g. Vincennes road, claims to have the mos,
| complete construction train in service to be
| found any road in the United States. The
| train. which is hauled by heavy freight engine
consists of sixteen fat cars, attached to which
are. first, seaping-car, in which are twenty sir
berths for the laborers on the train; next comes
dining-car, made out of baggage car. and
| conveniently fitted up with tables, ETC.; Their
comes a caboose, in which there are six berths
which used by the train crew; then bag
gage car. in which the clothing. ETC.. are kept
and lastly a tool car, making train OF twenty
one This train goes out on the road or
| Monday morning, and does not come In unit
| Saturday night. the men get to work early
| little time is lost for meals, as they are cate
! when the train is running, and the arrangeme
throughout moves along very satisfactorily.
One of the rules of the Union Railway c on
4 pany is that no agent at the Union Depot s,fa
be allowed to receive commissions on the Ale
| tickets of any home foreign roads. Som
twenty five years ago, HI. j. Clark, then e ener,
passenger agent of the Troy & Boston ros d. ser
to Uncle Billy Jackson, who was then tickle
agent Of the Union Railway Company Sl3 .
commission on tickets he had sold reaai ine owe
that road Mr. jackson promptly ret orned tn
money. and in few days received a letter frol
| Mr. Clark acknowledging the retura of the con
missions. and at the same time phof ocraph
Mr. Clark. the latter stating in tbs letter thu